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segmondyyesterday at 4:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

Seriously? Does Netflix or Spotify cost the same everywhere around the world? They earn less and their buying power is less.


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vineyardmikeyesterday at 9:55 PM

The costs of Netflix and Spotify are licensing. Offering the subscription at half price to additional users is non-cannibalizing and a way to get more revenue from the same content.

The cost of LLMs are the infrastructure. Unless someone can buy/power/run compute cheaper (Google w/ TPUs, locales with cheap electricity, etc), there won't be a meaningful difference in costs.

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epolanskiyesterday at 5:00 PM

Sure so do professional tools like Microsoft teams or compute in different places of the world.